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NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In response to the disproportionate and devastating impact COVID-19 has had on Black communities and other underserved communities of color, the first of many Choose Healthy Life COVID-19 testing, vaccine awareness and education events took place at the historic
Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, January 25
th. At the event Reverend Al Sharpton and Reverend Jacques DeGraff were tested to demonstrate the continued importance and ease of testing, even as vaccines begin to be available.
Rev. Al Sharpton, co-chair of the Choose Healthy Life National Black Clergy Health Leadership Council, demonstrates the ease and necessity of COVID-19 testing to help address the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 in Black communities. This event, held at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem on Jan. 25, is the first of hundreds of planned COVID-19 testing events at Black churches across the US, a partnership of
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NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, one year after the last MLK Day saw the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, Choose Healthy Life, led by Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III, will host the Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Conclave, a convening of 100+ Black clergy, America s leading public health officials, corporate and scientific leaders to step into the breach and address COVID-19 in the Black community as part of a national mobilization effort to boost testing and additional health resources. Tragically, too many African Americans get their first test for COVID-19 when they re getting admitted to the hospital, having missed the critical early window when some of the best treatments are most effective. We must elevate the importance of both testing and getting the word out about vaccination,
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NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Choose Healthy Life Black Clergy Action Plan, a group of the nation s leading Black clergy led by Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Calvin O. Butts, III, convened a meeting yesterday with
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and other top doctors including the National Medical Association to address racial health disparities, fighting COVID-19 in the Black community and the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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